Freedom on the March!

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the finding as it upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels to block the city from enforcing a law that would have prevented sales of the spray paint and markers to those between the ages of 18 and 21.

The appeals court also said it was unpersuaded by the city's argument that young artists can have friends, older relatives or an art school purchase spray paint and broad-tipped indelible markers for them or can use unregulated materials such as non-indelible markers.

It's a proud day in America when a judge deems basic art supplies "unregulated materials."

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OK it was a stupid law I’ll admit. But I’m having trouble figuring out why it was an unlawful law. If it’s a free speech issue, as the article seemed to suggest ,than why does the ban still apply to juveniles? You can’t drink if you are under 21 and you can’t smoke or vote under the age of 18. But I’ve never heard that the first amendment is waved until your 18’th birthday.

The Valentines Day girl looks almost exactly like this girl I once tried to hook up with. At first I thought she was perfect. She was hot and she paid for all the beer (keep in mind I lived with 3 other guys). Then I get her back to my house, we all start drinking, and right as I’m starting to think that we’re both about drunk enough to think I’m charming, she starts puking…a lot. Ruined night. This exact sequence of events happened twice more. I gave up.

To be fair, I think they are just trying to stem the calligraphy epidemic:

“Last month, Downtown Express first reported that calligrapher Xu Zi was kicked out of Battery Park in mid-December for selling her work alongside other artists, in spite of the fact that a 2001 federal court case had determined that artists do not need permits to sell their work.

Xu Zi’s removal from the park was based on N.Y.P.D. operations order #39, which states that a permit is required for anyone “printing plain letters or characters of any language, e.g. Chinese, Greek, Cyrillic?in a manner that does not convey a message (e.g. simply writing a name at the request of a purchaser).”

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe told Downtown Express last Thursday, “We’re not going to be doing enforcement on calligraphers.” But when asked for specifics on the new policy, Benepe backed off and said they are studying the issue with regard to calligraphers.”

“smacky | February 5, 2007, 3:50pm | # That Valentine’s Day Special Reason Girl looks like she’s begging to get fisted…

Yes, please! By all means — someone give her a right hook to her makeup-caked skank jaw.”

yeaaa! hilarious.

Rich – um. take self too seriously much? Or you’re new and don’t know that the Smacky is a frequent thread winner with foil-like wit! Nice to see you missed it by so much, tho. Glad you weren’t the Ion Cannon Gunner – else the first transport would never have gotten away.

The appeals court also said it was unpersuaded by the city’s argument that young artists can have friends, older relatives or an art school purchase spray paint and broad-tipped indelible markers for them

Err, buying alcohol or tobacco for underage use is a class A misdemeanor in NYS, I’m surprised they didn’t make that the case for the spray paint, etc.

A Utica Club is OK, but a Maximus Super really does the job, not to mention a Genny Cream.

Will these idiots who constantly nibble away at the idea that 18-year-olds are adults ever come out and say that they want to roll the age of majority back to 21, take away the vote from the 18-20 crowd, and just be done with it?

They’ll want to keep the procedures for trying juveniles as adults, though.

Will these idiots who constantly nibble away at the idea that 18-year-olds are adults ever come out and say that they want to roll the age of majority back to 21, take away the vote from the 18-20 crowd, and just be done with it?

They’ll want to keep the procedures for trying juveniles as adults, though.

Don’t forget that they’ll also want to keep the age of conscription at 18. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

I don’t foresee this changing anytime soon. 18-20 year olds don’t tend to stick up for themselves very well in age discrimination issues and very few 21+ actually give a shit.